Over a million displaced Gazans sheltering at UN facilities, says UNRWA

CAIRO — The UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees says that almost 1,037,000 internally displaced Palestinians are currently seeking shelter in 156 UNRWA facilities across the Gaza Strip.

In its report, the aid agency says that the number of its workers killed by the ongoing conflict in Gaza stands at 108. The information in the report was valid as of Tuesday.

Earlier Wednesday, UNRWA’s Secretary General, Philippe Lazzarini, gave a press conference in southern Gaza warning that the suffering of Palestinians will only worsen with the coming of winter, and that the besieged territory is on the verge of a waterborne disease outbreak.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a temporary truce was agreed between Israel and Hamas that will facilitate the release of some 50 Israelis, women and children, taken hostage during the terror group’s shock assault on Israel on October 7, in which terrorists killed 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and abducted some 240.

The truce has been welcomed by UNRWA whose leaders have continually called for a ceasefire.

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